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Re: [TLS] RFC4492bis - Rename the "Supported Elliptic Curves" extension

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Wed, 14 January 2015 16:32 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:32:08 -0800
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Subject: Re: [TLS] RFC4492bis - Rename the "Supported Elliptic Curves" extension
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This seems like a good idea to me. Alternatively, we could have a separate
draft that *just* did the rename and then just update 4492bis as we already
have TLS 1.3.

-Ekr


On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Henrik Grubbström <grubba@gmail.com> wrote:

> [https://github.com/tlswg/rfc4492bis/issues/4]
>
> This extension has been renamed "Supported Groups" in the drafts of
> TLS 1.3 and FFDHE.
>
> Having different names for the same extension in different concurrent
> RFCs should be avoided.
>
> Section 5.1.1 and other places should be updated accordingly.
>
> --
> Henrik Grubbström                                       grubba@grubba.org
> Roxen Internet Software AB                              grubba@roxen.com
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